Category: Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things
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Traditional Christmas Shortbread Recipe with Rice Flour and Vanilla
I wasn’t going to bake any biscuits or cookies this Christmas. I usually bake a selection of biscuits, which I decide on in the weeks leading up to Christmas – Oreos, Greek Easter biscuits and Graham crackers are some of my favorite festive bikkies. But this year I was going away on the 16th of…
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Best Red Velvet Cake with Macadamia Oil Recipe
It’s spring in Sydney the jacaranda trees are in bloom and as always in November it can go from searing heat to wild, wet and chilly within a day. In the scenic hot spots round the city tourists are causing traffic chaos as they stand in the middle of the road to try and get…
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Margaret Fulton’s Peanut Butter Cookies: A Classic Recipe
Peanuts and peanut butter seem to be having a renaissance. When I go down to Melbourne ,which is the centre of hipster food in Australia, peanuts seem to have squeezed their way back onto menu of all the best cafes. I even saw peanut and jelly pancakes on the breakfast menu at Lolo & Wren…
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Perfect Thin and Crispy Anzac Biscuits Recipe
I’m not a fan of Anzac Day, in fact, its my least favorite national holiday. A memorial day for those who served and died in war shouldn’t be a cheery affair but that’s not the reason I don’t like it. When I was a kid in the seventies Anzac day was a mournful affair, many…
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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll Love
I’m not a huge apple cake fan, I find the whole idea of apple cake a little humdrum. When someone tells me they’ve made an apple cake my heart doesn’t automatically leap, I mean there’s a limit to how amazing an apple cake can be… right? That was what I thought until I tried this…
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Homemade White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough Recipe
Yesterday, we got a new fridge. Yay! There’s nothing like a brand spanking new refrigerator to lift your mood. Our old fridge was over 16 years old and was mouldy and skanky beyond belief. In my forced fridge clean out, I came across a bag of white chocolate pastels that had been languishing in the…
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Velvety Orange, Yoghurt, and Cardamom Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
This would have to be one of the easiest cakes in the world to make. It’s simple enough to whip up for an afternoon tea but spectacular enough to shape shift into a celebration cake. The lightly sweetened cream cheese icing and chopped pistachios give a slight, savoury contrast to the sweetness of the cake. This…
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Homemade Salted Caramel Chocolate Slice Recipe
There is something very homely but elegant about an old fashioned slice. When I was a kid, my mother had about half a dozen slice recipes that were family favourites. In the days when most sweets were homemade, a slice was less labour intensive than biscuits and kept better than cake. Cut into small one…
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Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe: Perfect Summer Afternoon Tea Dessert
I haven’t baked this cake for a couple of years until I baked it in a lull in the heat last week and again this week. Tart with yoghurt, fragrant with lemon zest, this is (if you can bear to turn on the oven) a perfect summer afternoon tea cake. It comes together quite easily…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 